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1.
Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug (tailscale.com)
1198 points by ropbear 2 days ago | 232 comments
2.
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (openrouter.ai)
1027 points by explosion-s 2 days ago | 446 comments
3.
2026 Eclipse Webcams (jonty.github.io)
510 points by zoenolan 2 days ago | 142 comments
4.
Qwen3.8-2.4T (huggingface.co)
710 points by Philpax 2 days ago | 170 comments
5.
AI is removing the middle class of software engineering? (florianherrengt.com)
984 points by florianherrengt 2 days ago | 916 comments
6.
Delta (zed.dev)
672 points by khy 2 days ago | 254 comments
7.
Grok 4.6 (x.ai)
629 points by iLuddite 2 days ago | 614 comments
8.
Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died (amiga-news.de)
300 points by doener 2 days ago | 39 comments
9.
Compression is prediction (ngrok.com)
663 points by nikolay 3 days ago | 291 comments
10.
Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot (knownagents.com)
302 points by gavinhking 2 days ago | 226 comments
11.
Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome (guillaumetech.github.io)
333 points by gutechh 2 days ago | 68 comments
12.
License plate reader searches should require a warrant (andrewpwheeler.com)
632 points by apwheele 2 days ago | 394 comments
13.
Shade Map (shademap.app)
244 points by fredley 2 days ago | 60 comments
14.
HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript (andros.dev)
252 points by redbell 2 days ago | 197 comments
15.
Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials (discoveredmaterials.com)
159 points by advaith08 2 days ago | 35 comments
16.
Grok Bot (x.ai)
343 points by rvz 3 days ago | 328 comments
17.
Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation (ad-si.com)
312 points by adius 2 days ago | 45 comments
18.
The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025) (aresluna.org)
386 points by dcminter 8 days ago | 58 comments
19.
Pixel Watch 5 (blog.google)
172 points by ortusdux 2 days ago | 387 comments
20.
Lovable raises $400M Series C (lovable.dev)
162 points by thoughtpeddler 2 days ago | 202 comments
21.
What sort of maths are LLMs good at? (gowers.wordpress.com)
259 points by ColinWright 2 days ago | 160 comments
22.
Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation? (funcall.blogspot.com)
154 points by oumua_don17 2 days ago | 149 comments
23.
Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta (abc.net.au)
478 points by robtherobber 2 days ago | 342 comments
24.
Breaking the WAL (antithesis.com)
159 points by wwilson 2 days ago | 51 comments
25.
Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf (corneroffifth.studio)
189 points by carabiner 2 days ago | 314 comments
26.
LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 (cringebot3000.com)
475 points by theanonymousone 2 days ago | 204 comments
27.
Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (artificialanalysis.ai)
341 points by wertyk 2 days ago | 413 comments
28.
High-Res Photo Shows Sand-Capped Butte Rising from Mars Plain of Polygons (petapixel.com)
168 points by bookofjoe 8 days ago | 18 comments
29.
llama.cpp (llama.app)
362 points by kristianpaul 2 days ago | 162 comments
30.
The Human Is the Loop (brentfitzgerald.com)
194 points by burnto 2 days ago | 90 comments

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